Moon Child

Title: Moon Child

Authoress: Lillie

I own the story, and characters so please do not copy it in any way

or form unless given permission from me.

Desdre grimaced as the male finished rutting with her and finally

pulled out. \"Now that was something I\'ll always remember.\" The

young male boasted as he rolled off Desdre\'s voluptuous form. \"I

tamed a fearless Amazon in my bed.\" The young man laughed then

as he glanced around, where they were laid outside on the green

grass. \"Well, at least I tamed one with my rod.\" The young man

grinned as stroked his limp member once.

Desdre\'s eyes sparkled with something akin to malice. She quickly

pulled out a knife that had been hidden in her leather boot and

pressed it up against the young man\'s neck. \"You did not tame me,

foolish male; I only used you to produce a child. You mean nothing

to me, nor will you ever see me again, lest I have a male child, then I

will bring the male child back to you to raise.\"

The young man\'s eyes widened fearfully. \"I cannot take a male child,

I have a wife already.\"

Desdre smiled a grim smile before re-sheathing her knife. \"You

should have thought about that before lying with me.\"

The young man was left gaping, his member laid spent on his thigh as

he watched the flame haired young women mount her roan colored

horse and gallop off.

He shuddered. He hoped never to see her again, for if he did, he

knew his wife would leave him, and Cecile was a good wife, but he

knew that she would not stand for him being unfaithful. Especially

with one of the well known, and well hated Amazons.

~

Desdre sat down the heap of soft animal skins as her life-partner

walked out of the hut to go gather some fruit for Desdre\'s eight

month pregnant body. Hieka, Desdre\'s partner was looking forward

to having a child in their hut. Desdre prayed each day to Ishtar, the

warrior goddess for a female child.

Desdre felt the child inside her give a strong kick, and a smile came

unbidden to her soft lips. The child had to be a girl to give such

strong kicks.

Desdre stroked her stomach as she sang a song of ages past to her

growing child inside of her. She closed her eyes peacefully, and lay

back on the covers to stretch out as much as her girth would allow

her too.

Desdre sighed as she cupped a plump right breast in the palm of her

hand. She stroked the hardening nipple lightly and sighed. She had

not been able to lie with her life-partner for a few weeks because the

priestess had given her advice. The priestess of Ishtar had told Desdre

and her life partner Hieka to not lie with each other after the sixth

months. There were a better percentage of females being born that

way.

Hieka pushed the hide aside as she ducked into the hut. She saw

Desdre stretched out on the animal skins, playing with herself and a

full grown smile graced her firm lips. The brown haired girl cleared

her throat, and smiled when Desdre jumped.

\"You\'re back so soon?\" Desdre asked as a slow blush crawled its way

across her fair cheeks.

Hieka nodded as she knelt down to give her life-partner a searing

kiss. \"There was a bush full of ripe berries on the path that leads

towards the waterfalls. I stopped and picked a bowl full and brought

them back for you and our child.

Desdre smiled as she accepted the bowl from her life-partner and

begin to eat her morning meal. She gasped as her child again gave a

strong kick to her womb. Hieka smiled, her black eyes glittered with

mirth as she pressed her hand up against the swollen stomach of

Desdre\'s. \"The child has to be a girl; no man could kick that strong.\"

Desdre laughed. \"Indeed, that was my very thought earlier.\"

Desdre jumped when the priestess of Ishtar ducked into their hut,

uninvited. The priestess\' eyes glittered with hate as she broke the

stunned silence with her fateful words.

\"The Centaurs are close to the village, they seek to destroy our kind.

We must take them by surprise, and kill them, before they kill us.

Hieka, you can lend us your strength and Spear, but Desdre, you

must stay here with the other pregnant women and children. You are

to full with child to be able to move agile.\" The priestess spoke the

last words then disappeared from the hut entrance.

Desdre turned fearful, yet determined eyes toward her partner. \"Do

our family honor, and kill the Centaurs before the get to our village. I

will be waiting for you when you come back.\"

Hieka smiled warmly, and kissed her partner one last time before

standing up. \"I will do our family honor, and I will bring back

Centaur meat for supper.\"

Desdre smiled as her life-mate strode proudly out from their hut, and he ohe offered up a prayer to Ishtar for her life-partners safety.

~

The priestess Urantios smiled grimly as she surveyed the fallen

centaur bodies. Their tribe had defeated the Centaurs, but not

without their own casualties.

Hieka of the Scythian tribe had been slaughtered ruthlessly that day,

as well as several other women. She turned grim, hateful eyes toward

the west, where the centaurs had come from. She hated this part of

being priestess. Going to give the life-partner the soul-shattering

words. She turned her thoughts towards Hieka\'s pregnant life-par


and sorcamecame to her sky blue eyes. Desdre would be shattered,

and it might bring her to go into labor early.

~

Desdre waited with baited breath all day to hear news of the battle.

During one point in the afternoon she had felt a sudden terror that

had quickly passed, and Desdre knew then that something had

happened. She had prayed to Ishtar all afoon,oon, seeking some sort

of reassurance that her life-partner was alive, but as soon as the

Priestess strode into her hut, Desdre knew that she was alone for the

rest of her time on the planet earth. Her life-partner was dead.

The Priestess offered a hug to the distraught women, but Desdre

ignored the priestess and rushed out past her, out of the hut, to

where she saw Hieka, lying peacefully in her own blood. Hieka\'s lush

eyelashes laid peacefully over closed midnight colored eyes, and her

long brown hair was spread out around her, soaked with blood. The

women had brought back the dead women on a stretcher of lion skin,

and several women had already came outside and were wailing, their

grief was palpable in the air, and Desdre closed her eyes, her grief so

intense that she felt light-headed. \"No…\" The word passed her lips

unaccounted for as she fell to her knees. She crawled over to where

her life mate laid so still and wrapped her arms around her lifeless

partner. \"Hieka, no…please, wake up, you haven\'t even seen the

baby, your Li\'lei. Please wake up, Hieka, you need to wake up, you

need to help me raise our little one, please wake up, wake up…\"

Desdre felt Hieka\'s blood seep through her thin leather skirt, and felt

Hieka\'s blood smear across her bared breasts. She then felt hands
b onb onto her arms, and instantly clung to her life-partners dead

body. \"No, leave me.\" She told the hands that were grasping at her.

Desdre then felt her green eyes fill with tears, and that\'s when she

felt a pain so deep start within her womb, and she knew that her

baby was going to come early. Desdre\'s eyes cleared as she gave into

the grasping hands, and felt them lift her heavy body off the still

body of her dead life-partner. She had her little one to live for; her

Li\'lei would give her the ce toe to live again.

Eighteen years later

Li\'lei paused in the middle of skinning a deer. She had heard a twig

snap, and was uneasy. She stood up, drawing her bone knife from

her side sheath and waited, watching the surrounding tree\'s and plant

life for any movement. She heard another twig snap, and her whole

body tensed, and her vibrant green eyes narrowed to slits.

\"Who is out there?\" She asked, after a long stretch of silence, and

then she glared as her friend Delphi walked out from the bushes with

a sheepish grin on her face. \"You should not sneak up on me like

that Delphi.\" Li\'lei told her friend as she sheathed her knife. She bent

back down and finished her task, and heaved the body of the skinned

deer up onto the ground stretcher and started to walk, dragging the

dead deer behind her.

Delphi walked beside her, and Li\'lei looked at her friend with a

question dancing around in her green eyes. \"What did you want my

friend?\"

\"Your mother is not doing too well Li\'lei, her health wanes this very

moment. I fear she will not last the night.\" Li\'lei\'s eyes lost their

sparkle, and her lips quivered. \"So soon? I thought the Priestess said

that she would make it at least one more season.\"

Delphi hugged her friend and kissed her on the mouth. \"Your mother

will soon be with the great Goddess Ishtar, and she will watch over

you with her life-partner Hieka. It will be good for them to be

together once more.\"

Li\'lei smiled sadly. As far as she could remember her mother had

always told her stories of Hieka, and she could always see the hurt

and the longing when her mother spoke of her life-partner. Li\'lei was

going to miss her mother, yet she knew her mother would be whole

again once more.

\"My mother will be happy once again. She loved me, yet I could tell

that she always yearned to be with her life-partner.\" Li\'lei stopped

and cocked her head as she thoughtfully told her friend, \"I don\'t

want a life-partner ever. I don\'t want to be half-whole if my

life-partner would ever die. I\'ve seen what living half-whole has been

like for my mother, and I don\'t want to risk my self like that.\" Li\'lei

said, her eyes misting over at the thought of never having a

life-partner, but she knew she would live by her words.

Li\'lei never noticed the sorrow that came into Delphi\'s eyes as she

said that.

~

By the time Li\'lei had walked back to the village, her mother had

already departed from her earthly life.

The Priestess offered up prayers to the goddess\' and watched as Li\'lei

placed her mother\'s body upon the sticks on the stone altar, and light

her mother\'s body. The stench of burning flesh soon filled the

village, but Li\'lei never blinked as she stood there morning, yet glad

that her mother was now in paradise with her life-partner.

The next morning Li\'lei finally left the stone altar, her mothers ashes

had spread over the area, and some flying to far off places on the

winds. Li\'lei said goodbye once more to her mother and headed off

to her Hut where she laid down on her bed of soft skins, and fell into

a deep yet uneasy sleep.

~

Delphi paced outside her friends hut, worry etched deep into her

golden eyes. Her black hair fanned out once more behind her as she

turned to pace the other way. Li\'lei had been inside her hut mourning

for 3 days without food or water. The priestess wouldn\'t let her go

into the hut until the fourth day, but she was worried. Li\'lei had to be

starving by now and very thirsty- Delphi glanced up as the skin that

served to cover the doorway to her friends hut wusheushed aside by

her friend\'s fair hand.

Delphi immediately rushed over and embraced her friend in a hug,

and kissed Li\'lei wholly on the lips. \"You had me so worried, Li,

never do that to me again.\"

Delphi\'s golden eyes shimmered with worry, and Li\'lei smiled and

kissed her friend back softly. \"I am done mourning, my friend. I will

be fine now. I am hungry though-\"Li\'lei blinked as her friend rushed

over to pick something off the ground. Li\'lei\'s eyes widened prettily

as she say what her friend had in her hands. Roasted rabbit and

berries were laid out on a wooden plate, and Li\'lei felt her mouth

water. \"You\'re the best Delphi.\" She said as she took the offered

plate from her friends hand and sat down on a mat and began to eat

hungrily.

Delphi smiled as she watched her friend eat. She loved Li\'lei so

fiercely, and yet her friend was completely oblivious. She watched as

her friends long fiery red hair tangled in curls around her friend\'s

bottom and giggled as a small kitten batted at her friend\'s fire-colored

tresses.

Delphi bent down to pick up the black kitten and petted it as her

friend finished her meal.

Li\'lei smiled gratefully at her friend as she stood up. \"So what is the

latest news, Delphi? What of the Men\'s world? Is their any more

news of the barbarian called Hercules?\" Delphi grinned and nodded.

\"It has been said that he killed the ferocious Nemean lion by

strangling it, and now wears its pelt around his waist.\"

Li\'lei rolled her eyes. \"Anyone could say that. Is their proof?\"

Delphi shook her head. \"No proof, but you know how much the

Greeks like to exaggerate. He probably only had a drunken brawl as

most Greek men are susceptible of doing.\"

Li\'lei tipped her head back and laughed. \"So true my dear friend.\"

Delphi smiled, then a thoughtful look passed across her fair face.

\"Queen Hippolyta has said that if the treaties with the Greeks fall

through, their could be war.\"

Li\'lei felt a tremor of forbiddance rippled down her spine. \"W

How soon?\"

Delphi shrugged, and reached up to scratch her cheek. \"The Queen

said maybe within a season or two.\"

Li\'lei sighed. \"I hope its sooner than la\"
\"

Delphi looked at her friend with surprise on her face. \"What do you

mean? Why do you say that?\"

Li\'lei smiled a sort of bleak smile. \"I wish to join my mother.\"

Delphi shook her head. \"You can\'t, you have much to live for my

friend.\"

Li\'lei shook her head. \"I have absolutely nothing, Delphi.\"

Delphi pulled a surprised Li\'lei into her arms and pressed her lips to

her friends, and pored her love into that one fiery kiss. \"You have me

to live for, Li. Please, live for me.\"

Li\'lei looked into her friend\'s eyes, and felt a tremor of fear pass

through her. \"I can\'t love you, Delphi, I just can\'t.\" With those words

said, Li\'lei tore out of camp.

~ Two months later ~

\"Is that the Mesopotamian Amazon tribes delegate party?\" Li\'lei

whispered to Delphi as she watched the foreign women march

through the came and be welcomed into her Queen\'s hut.

Delphi nodded, her black hair fanned out behind her as she strode

out to watch the last of the strange, yet beautiful women enter her

Queen\'s hut. These strange Amazon women walked with a grace, and

agility known only to Jaguars. They all had sun colored hair, that

shone like halos around their bodies, and their eyes were the color of

a jaguars, golden brown.

Yet, none of them matched the grace and beauty thade ude up her

friend Li\'lei. Li\'lei\'s body was small, yet slim and strong. Her legs

were long for her short body, and her breasts were plump and firm,

and had light dusky pink nipples that begged for Delphi\'s attention.

Her neck was graceful, and her ears tiny. Her red hair was gloriously

long, and curly. She was an epitome of a goddess, yet she was so

oblivious of her looks. This was one of the many things that had

drawn Delphi to her, even if she had only been six at the time.

Li\'lei looked on at the delegate party with wistfulness on her face.

They knew of the outside world because they had been out in it. She

had never even been outside her tribe\'s borders, and she longed to go

traveling, to see the many wonders of the world. She had thrived on

tales of the outside world as she had grown up, and still loved to

hear the latest news. Li\'lei stretched her petite body as she settled

down on the ground. She wanted to talk to one of the women from

the Mesopotamian party; she had a lot of questions for these well

know Amazons.

~

Ten\'ra watched on in sileas has her Leader conversed with the

Amazon Queen Hippolyta. Antiope, her leader was strong and

fearless, which is how her leader came to be leader. Her tribe was

based on skills, and the ladder reached up from there. The strongest

survived, and the weakest would be left behind.

This was the way of the Mesopotamian, the way of the Jaguar. Ten\'ra

sighed as she yearned to be outside running in her other half\'s skin,

her skin of the jaguar. She loved the way running felt upon all fours

gave her such a sense of freedom.

She was brought back to attention as Antiope thrust her spear into

the air. \"There will be war within the Season that comes.\" The cheers

that followed made a grin come onto the beautiful woman\'s face, and

her beautiful amber colored eyes lit with an unholy glee. \"War.\"

Thought Ten\'ra, \"This war will be our victory.\"

~

Ten\'ra stepped out into the sunshine as the meeting closed and

smiled. She loved the sun\'s warm rays that beat down on her, making

her skin feel velvety warm. She looked around the busy Amazon

camp and her eyes came to a sudden stop.

Their sitting on the edge of camp, where two lovely girls. But one

wholly outshone the other. Her fiery red hair hung below her waist

in an endless mass of curls, and even from her distance, Ten\'ra could

tell the color of that exotic girls eyes. A vivid jungle green.

Ten\'ra felt her stomach tighten with a feeling so intense that it took

her breath away. The jaguar in her roared roared with the ferocity of

a found life mate. Ten\'ra blinked with surprise, and then a shiver of

dread rushed down her spine. Why would she find her life mate now,

with war on the horizon?

~

Li\'lei had half fallen asleep when she saw the cloth door be pushed

aside. She sat up quickly and her breath almost slammed out of her

body when she saw the figure that immerged from the hut.

The woman was very tall, but also graceful. You could almost see

the aura of power that surrounded the warrior, yet she was the most

beautiful thing that Li\'lei had ever laid sight too. Long limbs were

incased by leather straps, and the females breasts were bound tightly,

so\'s not to be in the way while drawing her bow and arrow. The

women had sun colored hair that well reached below her back, but it

was braided tightly so that it would be out of the woman\'s way. But

one of the most amazing features the women had was her luminous

brown eyes that stared deep into Li\'lei\'s soul. And without realizing

it, Li\'lei had gasped as she felt a pull toward the beautiful women, an

emotional pull, and one that Li\'lei didn\'t want to feel. Li\'lei saw the

women start walking toward her, and she sprang up and ran into the

jungle. She felt tears make their way across her cheeks, and she knew

that she couldn\'t go back to camp as long as the delegate party was

there. She couldn\'t afford to love, especially in such a perilous time

of war that shimmered on the horizon.

She ran out to the waterfalls and quickly stripped herself of her

loincloth and dived of the waterfall into the deep spring below. She

didn\'t want to have to think, she thought, as she surfaced the cold,

yet refreshing water.

~

Delphi ran through the jungle, not two steps behind her friend. She

pressed her hand to her head as she remembered the intense feeling

she had felt flow through her as she watched Li\'lei somehow connect

with the Amazon warrior in her village, a connection that Li\'lei had

said she never wanted.

Delphi\'s brow lowered as she remembered the look on the Amazon

warriors face, it was one of longing, loving and surprise when Li\'lei

had jumped up and ran off. Delphi felt a hate start within her, a hate

so intense that she wished to kill the warrior, and steal Li\'lei for

herself.

She had been there for Li\'lei ever since she was a small child, and

this new woman had aroused feelings in Li\'lei, feelings that Li\'lei had

never shown toward her. She felt jealousy surge through her slim

body, and knew that she had to keep Li\'lei away from the warrior at

all costs.

She came to the falls, and watched as Li\'lei stripped herself of her

small loincloth, and felt a heat unfurl in her lower belly. She

stripped herself of her own cloths and dived in after her friend.

~

Ten\'ra watched in surprise as the young girl ran off with something

akin to panic in the way the young girl ran away from her. She knew

that the other girl had felt the pull, but why would she fear the

connection? Most women longed for life mates, and yet, here was a

girl that was seemingly terrified of the connection. Ten\'ra pursed her

lips together as she made a decision.

She would woo, and court this lovely young maiden. She had waited

almost thirty two years on this earth for a life mate, and now that

Ten\'ra had found her, she wasn\'t about to let the young maiden run

away from her in fear.

Ten\'ra took off running in the direction the two girls had run off in.

Ten\'ra\'s eyes glittered with anger as she remembered the look of

longing on the girl\'s face that was standing to to her life mate, one

of longing as she glanced at the form of her life mate, and one of

malice as the girls golden eyes had fixed upon hers. It looked as if

she had a rival.

\'One that won\'t last for long on this earth if she tries to get

in-between me, and mine.\" Ten\'ra swore.

Ten\'ra quickly divested herself of her cloths and crouched down as

she morphed into her other half; the jaguar. She ran underneath the

heavy jungle foliage until she came to a tropical oasis. There was a

big clear pool that had waterfalls surrounding it, Ten\'ra saw the black

haired girl jump in, and then she spotted her life mate in the clear

pool.

Ten\'ra could see that her life mate was naked as her life mate stayed

in one spot treading the water with ease.

She was beautiful, her life mate; and all hers.

~

Li\'lei frowned as she saw her friend jump in the water after her, so

she stopped swimming and treaded water as her friend swam over to

her side.

\"Why did you run away like that?\" Asked Delphi with a questioning

look on her face as she flipped her hair back over her glistening wet

shoulder. Li\'lei shrugged and swam over toward the more shallow

part so that she could talk with Delphi without having to concentrate

on treading the deep water. She got to the shallow part and stepped

out, the water running down her glistening body in rivulets.

She sat down on the pure white sand that surrounded the water and

laid out stretching. \"To answer your question Delphi, I don\'t really

know why I ran away. The woman was so beautiful and captivating, I

felt something insid dra draw me to her, and it frightened me, when I

told you about not wanting a life partner, I meant it. I guess I was

attracted to her, but I can\'t have the kind of relationship right now,

especially with war on the horizon, it would distract me. I would be

fearful, and get either myself, or my life partner killed right away in

the first battle.\" Li\'lei explained, with a thoughtful look on her face.

Delphi noticed the forlorn expression on her friends face, and

immediately hugged her friend and pressed a soft kiss to her friends

yielding lips, but all of a sudden Delphi felt her hair on her neck

raise as she heard a low growl behind her. She turned her head

around slowly, and saw a jaguar crouching low just a foot behind

them.

Li\'lei turned around also, and saw a beautiful jaguar crouching

behind them. She noticed that the creature didn\'t seem to like Delphi

much, but when it would look her way, it seemed to smile, as if it

was telling her that it wouldn\'t hurt her. Li\'lei got off the sand,

brushing small pieces of sand of her smooth buttocks and walked

slowly over to the jaguar holding her hand out in a fist, palm up. The

jaguar trotted over and sniffed at her hand, and Li\'lei hesitantly put

her hand on the beautiful jaguars head and rubbed its soft ears. The

jaguar closed its eyes and purred, its rumbling sound echoing around

the area.

Li\'lei giggled softly and wrapped her arms around the jaguar, and felt

its rough tongue lick her neck and squirmed because it tickled.

Delphi felt jealousy creep through her veins and made a motion to

walk over towards Li\'lei, but immediately the Jaguar lifted its head

and growled a warning.

Delphi felt something in side her recoil, but not in fear, but anger.

How dare this animal come in between Li\'lei and herself? She knew

the jealousy that she felt was unreasonable, but there was something

odd in the jaguars golden eyes, something that spoke of intelligence,

human intellect, and that put Delphi on edge. She gritted her teeth

and tried to relax her tense body.

\"Shouldn\'t we be getting back? Queen Hippolyta surely has news to

tell us of the meeting. We should be finding out about how soon we

will be going to war with those back stabbing Greeks.\" Delphi said,

trying to reason Lii awi away from the deadly jaguar.

Li\'lei sighed and released her arms from around the beautiful jaguar\'s

soft neck. She had felt so safe curled around her jaguar, but she

knew that she had to be getting back to camp, even if she would run

into the beautiful warrior woman again. Her Queen would have more

news for the tribe, and she had her responsibility to be there as

captain of the warriors. Hippolyta would need her council as well.

\"Your right Delphi, We do need to get back.\" Li\'lei stood up, but not

before giving the beautiful animal one last hug. She climbed up the

cliff side with Delphi to get to their cloths and was soon headed back

to the camp, Li\'lei filled with anxiety, and Delphi filled with jealousy

and anger.

~

Ten\'ra watched as the two girls left to head back to camp, and she

felt her body change back into her human form. She sniffed around

the area, closing her eyes as she smelled the sweet jasmine sent of

her mate. Her Brown eyes snapped back open as she smelled the

ugly sent of jealousy. Ten\'ra shook her head in disgust. The black

haired women- Delphi, would be dangerous. A jealous woman was

always dangerous. Ten\'ra knew that she would have to keep all

senses on alert as she tried to court her lovely maiden.

Ten\'ra quickly melded back into her other half and was off as soon as

she was wholly into her other form. She had to get back to her cloths

and get back to camp. She had wooing to do.

~

Li\'lei was soon back to camp, and she looked anxiously around for

any signs of the golden haired warrior, she did see the other

delegates, but no sign of her warrior. \'Wait, did I just think \'my

warrior\'? This can\'t be happening!\' She moaned as she raced off to

her lodge to change into her ceremonial leather thong and her tight

leather chest bindings incase if they would be heading out right

away.

She quickly ran her fingers through her unruly, curly hair before she

stopped her movements all together. \'Why am I fussing over how I

look?\' She asked herself, before she let out an annoyed sigh. She was

already letting the warrior get to her. This was not good.

She qly sly smudged some coal around her eyes to make them look

more luminous- and also to shade her eyes into the background. She

strode out of the hut, only to find Delphi waiting for her. \"Hi Delphi,

ready to go?\"

Delphi nodded, her black hair done up in several braids and all

pulled back with a leather thong. Li\'lei had always envied her friend

for her straight long black tresses. Li\'lei had always longed for her

friend\'s hair, rather then has her own unruly fire colored tresses.

Delphi saw that her friend was thinking, so before she could talk

herself out of doing something that she might regret later, she pulled

her best friend into a fierce kiss, wrapping her strong arms around her

friend\'s shoulders.

Li\'lei made a sound of protest in the back of her throat as her friend

kissed her. She tried to wiggle her way out of her friends hold, but

Delphi only tightened her hold on the fiery girl.

Ten\'ra saw Delphi pull her mate into her arms, and felt her hackles

rise, and a growl leapt from her throat. She quickly strode over-

much to the surprise of her fellow warriors, and pulled her mate

away from the grasping ebony haired witch. \"How dare you kiss a girl

when it\'s unwanted?\" She growled at Delphi as she felt the slight girl

in her arms tremble.

Delphi\'s lips curled back in distaste. \"And how dare you take her

away from me- And how would you know if it was unwanted, Li\'lei

wanted it, she loves met yot you, some stranger she does not even

know.\"

Ten\'ra\'s eyes widened briefly. Her loves name was Li\'lei? So

beautiful- and feminine. She then heard Delphi\'s words, and her eyes

narrowed. \"Why don\'t you ask Li\'lei that then? Ask her if she wants

you to kiss her.\"

Delphi felt her body fairly quiver with rage. \"Li\'lei wanted me to kiss

her, didn\'t you, Li\'lei.\" Delphi narrowed her eyes at Li\'lei, almost

daring her to call Delphi on her lie. Li\'lei stiffened, and she felt the

warriors arms that held her loosen. \"I did not want your kiss Delphi,

nor do I want any others.\" Li\'lei declared, and she felt a deep sorrow,

some of it was hers- yes, but yet… it felt as if most of it were coming

from the tender, yet strong body that was holding hers.

\'How can that be?\" Li\'lei thought. \'Unless- I\'ve heard of feelings, even

thoughts being shared between two soul mates.\" Li\'lei\'s eyes widened

fearfully. \'This woman, this warrior who is holding me, is she my

soul mate?\"

Ten\'ra heard the words that had come from her life mate, and felt

despair and grief start deep in her soul. Now that she had found her

soul mate, she couldn\'t just leave her go. She would die without her

smaller life mate. She would perish from grief.

Li\'lei felt her head spinning from all the emotions coursing through

her tiny body, and all of a sudden her body slumped back into a

faint. Ten\'ra caught Li\'lei, feeling alarm shoot through her body.

\"Li\'lei?\" She asked, her eyes creased in worry. She quickly laid her

life mates body gently to the oft dirt, and growled a warning when

Delphi made a move to come over. \"You\'re not needed her Delphi.\"

She told the black haired girl. Delphi shook her head and strode

over. Ten\'ra leapt up and spread her legs apart, finding a firm footing.

\"I said stay away.\" Ten\'ra\'s eyes glowed with warning, and Delphi

pulled out her hunting knife.

\"You cannot tell me what I can, or cannot do, Mesopotamian. This is

my Village, not yours.\" Delphi bit back, her temper barley held in

check. She tensed even further, however when she saw Queen

Hippolyta walk into the clearing.

\"What\'s going on here Delphi, Ten\'ra?\" Hippolyta looked down and

saw Li\'lei lay out on the dirt gently, passed. \". \"And hap happened

to my fiercest warrior?\"

Delphi knew that she would be in trouble, and her head lowered

with shame. But then her head shot back up proudly. \"This

Mesopotamian challenged me for Li\'lei.\" Delphi said, telling only

half the truth.

Hippolyta\'s eyebrow rose. \"And what does that have to do with

Li\'lei, who has fainted to the earthen floor? Was she so surprised?\"

The Queen asked with a biting sarcasm in her voice. \"I know that you

are not telling me everything Delphi, for that, you will spend three

days on the outer encampment with no human contact. You are to be

shamed for lying to your Queen, who has taken care of you, and your

tribe.\"

Delphi felt a protest come to her lips when she saw the relief in

Ten\'ra\'s eyes. This would give Ten\'ra time to woo Li\'lei without her in

the way! But yet, when she looked back over into her Queen\'s eyes

she knew better than to argue. \"Yes My queen.\"

Delphi strode to her tent, gathered her things and went to the outer

camp, already feeling the rage take hold of her body completely. The

minute Ten\'ra stepped outside the camp boundaries; she would kill

the golden haired Amazon. No matter if that would get her killed in

return. Delphi\'s chin jutted out in stubbornness. \"If I can\'t have Li\'lei,

That Amazon certainly will not.\" She vowed.

~

Li\'lei felt panicked as she woke up from her faint. She gasped as she

sat up all of a sudden, dizzy with the small effort. She then felt

soothing hands on her forehead, and she leaned into the gentle

touch, fairly purring before Li\'lei caught herself. She jerked her head

away and looked up into warm brown eyes. \"Are you feeling better

Li\'lei?\" Ten\'ra asked as she saw the confusion fi thr through her life

mate\'s green eyes.

\"What happened?\" Li\'lei asked as she looked into Ten\'ra\'s eyes.

Ten\'ra stroked her face softly, soothingly, and Li\'lei leaned into the

touch, like a tamed jaguar, looking up into Ten\'ra\'s eyes with

something akin to love shining in her jungle green eyes.

Ten\'ra\'s own golden brown eyes glimmered with surpressed

emotions, need, desire and love filtered through every pore of her

being. She needed Li\'lei, like one needed air to breath. \"You feel this

connection between us, do you not?\" Ten\'ra asked Li\'lei, taking

Li\'lei\'s small, but firm hand into her own, and placing it on her heart.

Li\'lei closed her eyes, scared of all the emotions that were running

through her lithe body. \"I do.\" She confessed, her wide green eyes

telling Ten\'ra, what her own lips could not.

Ten\'ra leaned down, and captured Li\'lei\' velvety soft lips with her

own. She groaned as she felt fire spread like quicksand through her

veins. This feeling, Li\'lei, in her arms felt so right, so pure... Ten\'ra

reached up with her hand to cup Li\'lei\'s firm breast, and felt Li\'lei

jump. Ten\'ra smiled against Li\'lei\'s lips, and looked into her confused

eyes.

Ten\'ra pulled away gently, her lips still tingling pleasantly. Li\'lei sat

dazed for a couple of seconds before looking back up into the eyes

of her... life partner? Soul-mate? \"I\'m scared.\" Li\'lei confessed

quietly, and Ten\'ra quickly pulled the shivering girl into her arms.

\"Why are you scared? I would never hurt you.\"

Li\'lei smiled at the concerned look that showed in Ten\'ra\'s eyes. \"I

don\'t want you to die, I don\'t want to be left al.. I.. I saw what my

mother went through my whole life, without her life-partner by her

side. It\'s what killed her in the end, her grief was so over-whelming...

And until I met you, I had planned on being alone my whole life,

that\'s why I trained so hard to get my captains position. I had no

other goals, and no life-partner that would worry about me if I had to

go into battle... So you see, your coming here has been unwanted-\"

At the hurt look that showed in Ten\'ra\'s brown eyes, Li\'lei quickly

leaned forward to press her cool lips quickly to Ten\'ra\'s.

Li\'lei smiled as she felt the icy bands of fear melt away from around

her heart. \"It may of been unwanted, but only at first. I know


that I was meant for you, just as you were meant for me. I already

feel you in here.\" Li\'lei explained as she pressed Ten\'ra\'s hand to her

heart.

Ten\'ra smiled at the complete look of trust and love in her lifemates

eyes, and quickly pressed her lips to Li\'lei\'s once more- feeling as if

she could never slack her undying thirst for the red-haired goddess.

Li\'lei smiled as Ten\'ra kissed her, feeling as if she was finally safe

from everything- her fears, enemies and Delphi. She didn\'t know why

Delphi had suddenly changed into this scary, bitterly jealous women,

but she knew that she missed the way her friend used to be, kind,

caring, considerate... Li\'lei looked at Ten\'ra as she pulled away.

\"What\'s wrong?\"

Ten\'ra smiled, and teased Li\'lei. \"I could feel that you were thinking,

my beautiful one, because your kiss was being absently preformed.\"

Li\'lei felt a rosy blush spread vividly on her fair skin. \"I am sorry.\"

She said, a look of guilt passed qui ove over her face, and Ten\'ra

pulled Li\'lei into the safety of her arms. \"I love you little one, its ok,

I was just teasing.\"

Li\'lei heard the words, \'I love you\' and looked wonderingly up into

the soft eyes of her loves. \"You love me?\" She asked, feeling giddy,

and doubt at the same time.

Ten\'ra nodded. \"And do you love me?\" She asked with a secret smile

on her rosy lips. Li\'lei giggled softly and nodded. \"I don\'t know how I

couldn\'t. I love you so much, I feel that if we were just to be an arms

length apart, that I would lose the very breath from my body.\"

Ten\'ra felt a heady sense of love rush through her, at those sweet

words that ushered from Li\'lei. She quickly pulled her smaller lover

into the circle of her arms, and bent to nip softly at the side of her

neck. Ten\'ra felt her canines lengthen, and she pulled away quickly.

\"I have something to tell you, Li\'lei... A confession.\"

Li\'lei looked up at her lovers face with a questioning look in her

fathomless green eyes. \"And what would that be? Something not too

terrible, I hope.\" Li\'lei teased, with a bit of an incelent smirk

gracing her lush lips.

\"I am one of the changelings, Li\'lei, one of the animal humans of the

myths of old. Our tribe has had to hide this from outsiders since so

many of us have been killed over the centauries.\" Ten\'ra explained,

watching the interested and open expression on Li’lei’s face. \"We

usually mate within our own species, since changing a human mate

into one of us is a painful experience the first time.\" Ten\'ra saw

Li\'lei\'s eyes widen minutely, before an excepting look graced her

features.

\"So what you\'re saying is that I will become on of the changelings, as I

am to be your mate?\" Li\'lei asked, curiosity and pleasure made Li\'lei

feel tiny pin pricks of excitement rush over her body. \"Wait a

minute... Would that jaguar that I happened to run into at the falls be

you?\" Ten\'ra nodded and bit at her nails nervously. She hoped that

Li\'lei wouldn’t be mad at having her privacy invaded.

\"I knew something was different about that jaguar. So will I be a

jaguar too?\" Li\'lei asked, the open curiosity on her face made her

look like a young child. \"Yes, as my mate you would be a jaguar.

You would have to move with my village though, seeing as we are a

secret race.\"

Li\'lei leaned up to kiss her tall lover sweetly on the mouth. She then

pulled away and smiled brightly. \"Wherever you go, I will go. I

couldn’t live without you.\"

~

Delphi paced on the outskirts of camp, looking into the huts, seeing

all the women nestling down for the night she came up with a plan.

She stalked over to a bush that was full of ripe red berries. Poison

berries. If you ate enough of them, they would kill you in an instant,

eat a few of them, and mighmight die, or you could be very violently

sick. She plucked a handful of the deceptive looking berries and

walked quietly over to the hut that she knew Ten\'ra was in.

~

Ten\'ra laid down on the animal skins, and pulled a compliant Li\'lei

on top of her, feeling a deep sense of need pull at her. She surged up

to capture Li\'lei\'s soft lips with hers and reached down to untie Li\'lei\'s

leather thong apart. It fell oficklickly, and Ten\'ra lowered her hand

to nestle it in between her lovers silky thighs. She brought her finger

up and touched the hard little bump she found, rubbing it, making

Li\'lei grown and arch up, Ten\'ra then flipped Li\'lei over so that she

was on top and brought her lips down to suckle at one of Li\'lei\'s

rosy pink nipples.

Li\'lei felt as if her body was on fire. Ten\'ra\'s body was pleasing hers

so thoroughly that she thought she might faint, Ten\'ra\'s mouth wa
li
like liquid fire on her ever so hard nipples, making Li\'lei gasp, her

loins tightened and then she felt Ten\'ra\'s mouth leave her nipples,

only to touch her innermost place with her tongue. Li\'lei jumped, her

nerves tingling frightfully, her breath leaving her soft body in hard

pants.

\"Please, oh goddess, please Ten\'ra, you make me fly!...\" Li\'lei sobbed

as Ten\'ra\'s mouth on her brought her to orgasm, her body tightened

in pleasure, and Ten\'ra quickly lapped up the sweet juices her

life mate gave to her.

She then lapped at her mate’s neck, and Ten\'ra felt Li\'lei\'s arms

encircle her, telling her that she knew what was bout to happen, and

that it was just fine. Ten\'ra felt her canines lengthen once more, and

she pressed them against the side of her willing mate’s neck, and felt

them slide in painlessly. Her life mate’s sweet blood rushed into her

mouth, filling her with the tangy taste of her life mates life-force. She

felt the toxin from her bite release into her mate’s body, and saw as it

begin to change her life mate’s body.

Li\'lei screamed as she first felt her insides changing, morphing into

the right pattern of stomach a jaguar would haveen hen her eyes

widened as she screamed louder, in more pain then she would ever

had imagined. Her bones crunched as they broke, either lengthening,

or shortening into the right form for the form of a jaguar. Li\'lei felt the

pains leave her just as fast as it had come on, and she collapsed

panting, her tongue lolling out and her eyes closed. She felt her

knew body keenly, now aware of every smell, sound every subtle

shift of the earth. She then felt a rough tongue licking her, grooming

her body and Li\'lei relaxed into her life mate’s treatment, her body

felt suddenly tired, so unable to lift a paw, she fell asleep.

Ten\'ra saw her life mate fall asleep and grimaced. Li\'lei\'s screams of

pain would be haunting her dreams for days to come. She knew that

as soon her life mate would wake up, that she would be hungry, so

she slipped quietly out of the tent, padding of silently into the

jungle, atchatch something for her life mate.

~

Delphi slipped quietly into her enemy’s tent, clutching the berries

delicately in the palm of her hand. Expecting to see the body of her

foe, she saw the body of a sleeping jaguar, schedched out lazily over

the soft animal skins that were laid out on the floor. Delphi\'s mind

raced. \'All the old myths must be true then, Ten\'ra can change into

the jaguar form.\' She thought. She then crept silently over to the

slumbering form and crushed the berries into her hand, and opened

the side of the jaguar’s mouth. She swallowed nervously, seeing the

sharp teeth of her foe glittering whitely at her, but she then braced

herself and slipped the berries into the side of the creatures mouth.

She saw the creatures throat work, and saw it swallow the berries.

Delphi knew that within an hour Ten\'ra would be dead, and Li\'lei

Would finally be all hers.

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